The excavation at Myra and Port Andriake has unearthed an unprecedented quantity of millefiori glassware from the 5th century, with hundreds of plates and fragments.
Millefiori technique, meaning 'a thousand flowers' in Italian, involves layering glass canes of different colors to create unique floral and geometric patterns, with no two pieces alike.
The discovery of millefiori glassware in Turkey challenges previous scholarship which had noted only references to such artifacts, making this find remarkably significant.
Found in an administrative area of Andriake's agora, the millefiori plates are believed to have adorned walls, along with a unique opus sectile mosaic.
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